The second day of our walk we skipped two sections (about 50 km total) and started at the Confederation trailhead in Portage. The Confederation Trail is an old Railway converted to trail that's popular with bicyclists. We mostly had this portion to ourselves.
We walked through second growth bush and past marshland and farmland. We sampled the fruit off wild apple trees.
Some Lovely Ferns
Some of the smaller maples were starting to turn, probably due to drought. Islanders say there hasn't been any rain all summer. It's still a lot greener than the Cariboo.
There were several benches and picnic tables along the way.
To be honest after about 15 km it all got a bit same-ish. The last 5 km was just getting it finished.
Our shuttle drivers picked us up at the Northam trailhead and took us to our B and B, the Homeplace Inn in Kensington.
Mugging it up infront of the Homeplace
Our hosts were away but left us a nice note and told us to make ourselves at home. We had a nice large room. I slept on the sofa bed and it wasn't even uncomfortable!
Interestingly, our host had not only heard of Williams Lake but he had just been there recently, operating a corn combine at Fraser River Ranching (!).
We set out to find a food truck for supper but got lost so we asked a friendly passerby, Irwin, for directions. He seemed to find our conversation very funny. He was carrying a can and a tetrapack of chicken broth. He'd bought them to make roast chicken the next morning, complete with homemade stuffing. Hats off to you, Irwin, who stuffs a chicken anymore? Who even roasts a chicken with the rotisserie version cheaper than one you cook yourself?
Eventually Irwin admitted, You know what's going on here? I'm really high! Irwin's buddy works at the marijuana growup and they can't legally sell any product that's over a certain level of THC. They have to incinerate it but Irwin's buddy slips it to Irwin! All the same Irwin didn't steer us wrong; we found the Go'Fish food truck just down the next street next to the Haunted Mansion attraction.
Legend has it . . . it used to be a potato warehouse
Patti quickly made friends with the owners.
The fish and chips came in a PEI potato bag. Both the fries and the haddock were delicious and the tartar sauce and coleslaw were both homemade.
Best fish and chips I ever ate! Note the Concord grapes that Patty picked (and ate) from the Haunted Mansion's atmospheric grapevine.
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